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Oh are we live now okay so I got this letter in the mail now this is for product that is under embargo until Wednesday May 16th but in the meantime they have invited me to share my excitement on social using hashtag made by Google so hold on we got to get a pen hold on we're gonna get a pet anybody need my hashtag here help me hashtag here so what I was kind of thinking is part of our social excitement can be to do an unboxing of the Google home acts now hold on a minute what do you mean the Google home acts review is under embargo until the middle of May maybe there's something that I'm missing here let's go ahead and let's oh oh conveniently Tyler put a label on it so the boxes the box is already opened so we'll get a little unboxing going on here one obvious change is that it is now both Super Sonic and Super Sonic so that would be some french-canadian packaging there and okay there's a thing that goes there and there's a definitely very North American power cord there but it's hard for me to tell if they've changed anything without comparing it to the other two Google home maxes that I've had since we did our full review three months ago in here okay they're there in the power cord okay alright alright so you guys are probably wondering at this point what the purpose of this video is and this is something that I've wanted to address for a long time we have a lot of people ask us like it happens all the time you know why are you guys why are you guys late on product acts or or service why or whatever the case may be and a lot of you guys probably don't realize this but I'm Canadian and our studio is located in Vancouver Canada and this is actually something that I am not blaming Google for so they are they are launching the Google home max this is something that I can that I can look up in the news which you know by the way at NDA that you don't sign is not an NDA so that's sort of thing it's just kind of showed up in the mail but they are according to the news launching the Google home acts on May 16th according to IT world Canada site but I've never heard of because I never get my news there because I typically get my news from American sites that have literally had Google home max stuff too since mid-december so about six months ago so so I get it I get it there they're doing a launch for this product and they they want kind of a splash in the Canadian media around it but this is something that we actually run into a whole lot where companies large companies even very internet savvy companies like Google for example will have like this different set of rules for international publications compared to what they do for the US so if we had waited around for Google to send us a home max we wouldn't have been able to do our home pod versus Google home max video that we uploaded like I said literally three months ago until sometime after apparently May 16 and this is something that we run into a lot and it's it's really interesting because sometimes it even puts us at a bit of a weird disadvantage where because we're Canadian US agencies and US PR firms and sometimes even US manufacturers like that branch of their business won't deal with us but because we have a large US audience and a relatively small Canadian audience sometimes we kind of get second-class citizen treatment from the canadian PR firms as well in addition to just straight not having products available now google has actually done a pretty good job and I'm actually very grateful they sent over this home max even if I guess maybe they didn't realize that we already had our full review up so I can't really agree to an embargo for something that I that I have already clearly broken without actually realizing it but I'm not blaming them it's just it's something that's happened with us a lot a lot of people have asked why we don't have a video up of the LGG 7 think and the reason is not for a lack of willpower I really wanted to make a video about it I wanted to check out the new camera but the problem is that it hasn't launched in Canada yet and it's really funny because and this isn't elegy specifically we run into this a lot with mobile phones because they are so region specific or in some cases even carrier specific in terms of you know which models are available in which areas or to which carriers that they really do treat each region like like its own like its own planet so we'll run into situations where you know I'll be working through an agency on review of a phone or like a teaser teasers for the worst I'll be working with an agency on like a teaser of a phone or something like that and I won't even have it in the mail yet and I'll be like oh I didn't even think to check but like you know marques has had a video up for two weeks I'm kind of like yo guys to be clear I'm not complaining like we love the support and you know we love bringing you guys content about attack and all that stuff like I'm not whining about getting a Google max in the mail today it's just it's just a kind of a funny situation to me where I'll have to email that could be like yo guys um the internet thing Canadians got their teaser already they're not like they're not like waiting with bated breath for me to show us the bail specific bloatware that comes on the Canadian version of this phone so I don't know I don't really I don't really have a purpose are people like asking questions no little bit some people are kind of agreeing some people are like just pressing F after we were saying giveaway you know what why the heck not why don't we give it away that seems like a sensible enough thing to do I mean we've already got to Google though maxes that by the way we just had to buy I know people more people are saying F they're actually they're actually services it's really funny I was just introduced to one because I was I was trying to find now we know what it was launching and I came across this site called want board and their entire business model seems to be buying things directly from the Google store check this out and then just reselling them in Canada with the markup to Canadians and you can literally order a Google home accent Canada now like there are some features that don't work yet we pointed out in our in our review that you couldn't use the show me a pizza place nearby feature for example that wasn't enabled yet but by and large the product works just fine so so the whole thing has just always been really funny to me I don't know how we're going to manage the giveaway maybe maybe what we'll do is we'll get something up on the thorn later today but yeah we haven't done one in a while so I think that's a fantastic idea just to avoid getting into any trouble with Google Canada I think we're probably going to give away our US unit not that as far as I can tell there is any discernible difference between them other than here so instead of just attaching the base here you need to fix a lebar CC porn orientational via Takada okay sure why not I guess they assume you can figure out this one on your own so thanks for tuning in to hopefully what was a fun little live stream and we've we've had a little bit of fun hopefully not too much at Google's expense and you guys have gotten an explanation for why sometimes it just happens that we are straight-up not able to